Bryan J. Smith wrote:
They have CentOS "Plus" and other things, but largely it's
RHEL bit-by-bit, with other things provided by either
Fedora's EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) or
the various RPM Forge-aligned repositories.
I've heard, but haven't been able to verify, that RHEL comes with
proprietary management tools that aren't available in CentOS. Do you
know about that?
Etienne Goyer wrote:
Just to make matter worse, under Ubuntu, XDM config is beneath /etc/X11,
but GDM config is in /etc/gdm.
I neglected to mention, on all of the distros I cited, the "/etc/X11"
directory is still there. It's just that the "gdm" and "kdm"
sub-directories have been moved to their own separate directories.
G. Matthew Rice wrote:
>
>In this case, we can simplify the objectives by just saying gdm/xdm/kdm
>config files'. And not ask location specific questions unless, as you
>say, we track down all of the possibilities for the major distros.
>Which also doesn't seem onerous, in this case.
>
Well, I've verified that "gdm" and "X11" locations are the same for all
the current versions of Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS. (I haven't verified
that for "kdm", since my Feisty Fawn Kubuntu is the only KDE distro that
I'm currently running.) So, if the exam were to just cover the
RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu world, you'd probably be safe with asking about
specific locations.
On the other hand, if the exam is to be truly "distro-agnostic", then
you might still have a good point, since I don't know if other distros
are using other locations for the "gdm" and "kdm" directories. (But
then, the exam isn't truly "distro-agnostic" now, since the only package
systems it covers are the Red Hat and Debian/Ubuntu package systems.)
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>And that's a very excellent thing. There are many people and
>institutions out there that would like to go with Red Hat but can't
>right now - usually for license cost reasons. Centos gives them a
>proving ground and an upgrade path to eventually get there.
>
The most high-profile example I've heard of is the San Francisco
Chronicle. Last year, they decided to upgrade from the Red Hat 6 that
they were running, but couldn't afford the support contract for RHEL.
So, they switched to CentOS, instead.
My client has had me do several OpenVZ projects with CentOS. It works
like a champ, once you get it figured out.
G. Matthew Rice wrote:
>
> Well, that sucks. What about us poor slobs that want a
> lightweight option to the gnome and kde stacks?
>
I haven't played with Fedora in ages, so Bryan can probably advise you
better on that.
The three light-weights I've played with lately are Xubuntu, and the
XFCE versions of Vector Linux and Sidux. Of the three, I've found that
I like Sidux the best.
Ciao,
Donnie
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